Power Weekly Article

Power is a responsibility not a privilege. You need to know how to use the power you have or else it can take control of you. Good leaders can handle the power and pressure that they are given. If you are not a good leader, than the power can corrupt you and force you to make terrible decisions. I believe that both sides of these arguments are correct, you just need to look at the different aspects of each of the arguments and compare and contrast them. The person who I am going to use for the side that power does not corrupt is Alexander the Great. The person I am going to use for the side of the power corrupting a person is Adolf Hitler.
Alexander the Great was a great leader of Greece and their army. He conquered half of the known world when he was in his teens. Alexander the Great was a great General who had tactics and strategies that would win wars in just minutes. He took the power that he was given and used it to win battles and to help his country by conquering other civilizations. Alexander the Great was not a mean man. He would give his troops what they would need and he did not kill women or children. When he wanted to go further east and his troops did not want to, he turned around and listened to them. When he walked into Egypt, they made him their king just because they heard what he had done. The Egyptians also made him their king because Alexander the Great hated the Persians and what their actions stood for. When Alexander the Great flanked and beat the Persians in the battle of Issus, he noticed that Derius had been left behind by his troops. When he found this out, Alexander was furious. Alexander the Great went through the trouble of chasing down the person who abandoned him. He went all the way from the river of Issus to Hindu Tush just to chase down Besis. He did this for two reasons. The main reason why he did this was to get the support of the people of Persia by doing the right thing. The second reason Alexander went to chase down Besis was that he felt strongly that it was not humane to leave their General behind in a battle. These are examples of Alexander the Great used his power to the best of his ability without it corrupting him.
Adolf Hitler, however, got corrupted by his power and turned evil because of it. Adolf Hitler has gone down in history as one of the worst leaders of the world. Adolf was born in Austria on April 20 1889. He was a decorated veteran of World War I. Adolf Hitler got power in Germany in 1933. He took this power and did terrible things with it. For no apparent reason he started killing innocent people. The majority of these people were Jews and Romanians. For his twelve years of power he killed and executed seventeen million people, of which six million people were Jewish. Adolf did not just kill innocent people, he tortured them. He put them in concentration camps and would kill them by burning or gassing them. When the war was just about to end, he and his wife Eva Braun committed suicide. They did this because they knew they were going to get captured by the Russians. It is clear by his actions that Adolf Hitler let the power get to him and corrupt him and his decisions.
There are people in the world who can handle a lot of power and those who cannot. This is what decides the leaders and world rulers we pick. If power is used for the good of the people or the world, than this power is being used in the right way. If power is used to hurt people and destroy things, than it would be better if the person with that power would have never gotten it in the first place.

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A Leader Daily

I think that leadership is something you are born with. When we look at the great leaders of all time we see that they have one thing in common. This is that they all started to be leaders at a very early age. Alexander the Great is an excellent example of someone who was a great leader from his earliest ages. At the age of nineteen his father Philip died so he got his legacy. A couple years after his father died he controlled most of the known world. He then went on to conquer and become the king of Persia. Shortly after he died by a fever that took his life. He was in so many battles that the wounds he had endured caught up with him and ended his life.

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2/25/10 Alexander the Great Notes

• Alex heads for Mesopatamia
• He heads toward Persepolis
• Alex comes into Mesopatamia and meets the opposing forces near the river named Issus
• Darius is the king of Persia
• He had Greek mercenaries fighting on his side
• The frontline for Persia was archers
• He also had calvery storming to his left side
• Alex goes after the men who abandon Darius to get the people behind him
• He goes as far as the Hindu Tush mountains
• The man who betrayed him was Besis
• He has over 100,000 people with him
• He got impaled
• He also got his tongue, ears, and nose cut off
• Alexander has his first defeat
• They though the world ended at Europe and India
• His army is being attacked daily
• He survives a fatal arrow to the lung
• He gets a bad oman about going further to the east
• He practically turns into a Perian
• He comes to the ancient city of Babylon
• He died from a fever at the age of 32
• He split the empire between the generals
• The generals like to fight
• The Seleucid empire is the eastern remnant of Alexander's empire
• Ptolemaic Egypt know the term. They will rule this part of Egypt up to Cleopatra
• This is called the Hellenistic age

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Hera on Prezi

• 4 AD the Spartans beat the Persians
• Spartans chalenge the Athenians
• Fallinx against Fallinx warefare
• The Athenians built the long walls
• The only problem with this is that the Spartans would force the Athenians into their owm walls
• The Athenians catch a plague when they are in their walls
• the Spartans then go home
• Alcibiades is popular in Athens
• He comes up with the idea of invading Sicily
• This is called the Sicilianic Expedition
• Someone created mass vandalism
• His political enemies said that he did and people believe him
• He was convicted of this
• We think that he spilled the beans on the Athenians so that he could get revenge on what they did to him
• The Spartans are there waiting for them when they get there
• It was the greatest Greek defeat, so much that they still remember it today
• Aristotle was the mentor to a boy named Alexander
• He lived in Masedonia
• He could see Mount Olympis where he grew up
• This was the home of the gods
• Alexander's dad was the king of Macedon
• When Alex turns 19 his dad gets assasinated
• The first thing he does is get revenge on the people who killed his dad
• He becomes the king
• He would be the one to take revenge on the Persians
• He does that over the next few years
• He ruled most of the known world when he was 19
• Alexander goes to Troy
• He threw a spear into Troy and said he conquered Persia
• He does it for the symbolism
• He winds up in a town named Gordian
• There is a legend here. There was an ox cart that was tied up to a huge knot. It was almost impossible to untie. Whoever can undo this knot was known as the conquerer of the world. He says that he is going to do it. He pulls out his sword and chops it in half.
• When he gets to Egypt he is hailed as a king because the Egyptians hate Persia
• They take a roadtrip to an Oasis named Siwa

Roman Republic Daily

Some of the ways that the old Roman Republic is related to the modern democracy is for one thing they have a checks and balances policy. This was so one branch of the government did not get too much power. The Roman Republic also had a seperation of powers system so that one branch of the government did not have all the power over the government. The Roman Republic also had a form of a constitution. This Constituion unlike ours was not written but spoken and known throughout the nation. One more comparision is that they had a concil that would carry out the action of the government, much like ours.

Citation: "Roman Republic -." Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. .

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Biograohy Daily

Socrates was a famous Greek philosophere. He lived from 469-399 BCE. Most of the imformation found on him is second hand. Socrates mostly worshiped Jesus and Buddha. He died by the hand of the Athenian Democracy.

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Picture Citation: "File:Head Sokrates Glyptothek Munich.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. .


Plato was born to very wealthy parents and was a student under the great philosopher Socrates. He lived from 427 to 347 BCE. He soon started his own school for young philosopheres so that he could teach them what Socrates taught him.

Citation: "Plato." Philosophy Pages. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. .

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Aristotle lived from 384-322 BCE. He is known to have written 150 philosophical treatisies. After Alexander the Great's death the city rebeled and Aristotle fled to the Island of Euboea. He then died soon after.


Citation: "Aristotle." UCMP - University of California Museum of Paleontology. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. .

Picture Citation: "File:Aristotelesbunt.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 22 Feb. 2010. .

Script Daily

Interviewer:How did you feel about the battle of Thermopylae?

Perisian: This battle is going to be one sided and easy to beat the Athenians. They have so few soldiers and were have so many.

Interviewer: How did you feel when you saw only three hundred Spartans standing before you that day in Spetember on 480 BC?

Persian: I felt like we were going to win no matter what.

Interviewer: How did you feel when the Spartans were destroying most of your army?

Persian: I felt like even though they were destroying our army they weren't going to kill all of us before we would kill them.

Interviewer: Did you ever think that they would possibly win the battle of Thermopylae?

Persian: No we had 7,000 men and they only had 300. Even if they were the best fighters around they could not beat our mass numbers.

Interviewer: You prediction was right about winning the war. You ended up killing every single Spartan who stood in your way. How did you feel when you found out that the city of Athens was evacuated?

Persian: When I heard this news I was furious. We lost a lot of good men that day all for nothing.

Interviewer: Well thank you for your time and I hope you feel better about your loss.

Persian: Thanks for having me.


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Picture Citation: "File:Thermopylae ancient coastline large.jpg -." Wikimedia Commons. Web. 23 Feb. 2010. .

2/22/10 Ancient Greece Notes

• 480 BCE is now considered the classical age.
  
• One quarter of the entire population of Greece lived in Athens.
• The playwrites had to right a play for a festival usually a comedy.
• There was a festival for the god Dyonisis.
• Acros means high and Polis means city.
• Temple of Athenian Nike
• They built this temple because they won the battle against the Persians.
• The Parthenon was built in 4 A.D.
• Built with funds that the Athenians got as a result of the Persian wars.
• The age Pericles is considered the classical age
• His idea was to build a navy
• There was a picture of a parade in the Parthonon
• This temple was dedicated to the virgin Athena
• The Arts reached high point during this period
• If you were male you had to fight for your city

History is created by individuals Article

I think that history is created by individuals. There are many examples of individuals in our past that have changed history in many ways. Our own history in America has many examples of these types of individuals. I think that many of our leaders, like George Washington and Abraham Lincoln in our early history, and Martin Luther King Jr. and President Obama in more recent history, are all individuals that have had an important part in making history. Through their actions, these people helped change history and how we look at the world today.

George Washington changed history in many ways. He helped make our early form of government and even became the first president of the United States. He was not only the President but he was also first commander - in - chief of the Continental army. George Washington was also the delegate to the first and second Continental Congresses. Through all of his actions, George Washington made America a better country for everyone to live in. George Washington helped win the revolutionary War and many other wars to follow it. These are only some ways that George Washington changed history as we know it today.

Another person who changed history was Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln had many accomplishments in his short-lived life but those accomplishments changed the way we live and get along with each other. One of the most important accomplishments that Abraham Lincoln had was to lead his country, America, through the Civil War successfully. Abraham Lincoln managed to settle the differences between the two sides, the north and the south, and then to find a resolution that fit both of the sides. Another accomplishment that Abraham Lincoln had was becoming the first Republican President of the United States. Even though Abraham Lincoln was the sixteenth President, he was the only Republican out of the fifteen Presidents that were elected before him. Abraham Lincoln opposed slavery and wanted to end the act of it all together. Lincoln was one of the firsts to act on slavery and try to get slavery banned from the United States of America. Abraham Lincoln worked to stop slavery by introducing the Emancipation Proclamation. The first Act that was introduced and put into action was the Confiscation Act. This Act freed slaves of anyone convicted of aiding the rebellion. Abraham thought that Congress couldn’t free the slaves, but he signed the Act anyway so the Commander- in-Chief could free the slaves. When the Emancipation Proclamation got passed, it freed all of the slaves no matter if the area that they where in was controlled by the Union or not. Probably Abraham Lincoln’s most popular accomplishment was the Gettysburg Address. This speech was one of the most quoted speeches in history. These are just a few accomplishments that changed history. Abraham Lincoln was one of the most successful Presidents of his time and changed history through his actions and accomplishments. Abraham Lincoln, as an individual, helped change history and how we look at the world today.

Closer to our time, Martin Luther King Jr. also changed history in many ways. The first way that Martin Luther King Jr. changed history was to work to stop the segregation of colored people. It was important that Martin Luther King Jr. worked through peaceful ways to end segregation instead of using violence. Some of the peaceful ways that Martin Luther King Jr. helped get people to come over to his side was to give speeches and lectures about what his opinion was on the segregation of colored people. Martin Luther King Jr. also showed how evil segregation was by giving demonstrations on what the people were doing to colored people. Martin Luther King Jr. helped people see the true facts about what was happening to colored people when they weren’t paying attention. In Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I had a Dream” speech, he said that he had a dream about a world where white people and colored people would live in the same world peacefully. Everyone would get along no matter if their ethnicity was different than yours. This is how Martin Luther King Jr. created history and changed the way we live our life today.

Another individual that changed history is President Barrack Obama. Barrack Obama is our current President and made history just by being elected. Barrack Obama is the first African American President to be elected by the United States. Barrack Obama is the forty-fourth President of the United States. Barrack Obama changed the way we think about who can be President and how far we have come since slavery. This is why Barrack Obama changed history by becoming the first African American President.

All of these individuals prove that history is created by individuals. They all did different acts to help our country prosper. From the early 1800’s to the present day you can see that certain individuals can create history if they work hard on something. George Washington was the first commander in chief and the first President of the United States. He was the delegate to both of the Continental Congresses. Abraham Lincoln helped get rid of slavery in the United States of America and was the first Republican President. He also delivered the Gettysburg Address, which is one of the most quoted speeches in history. Martin Luther King Jr. ultimately stopped the segregation of colored people and helped America move on in their goal of uniting all races to get along with each other. Barrack Obama made a step in a new direction. Barrack Obama became the first African American President of the United States in 2008. These individuals changed history in many ways. Because of them we have developed further and gotten rid of slavery and segregation. These are all examples of how an individual can influence many people and change history. All of these individuals changed history for the better in some way, either by helping people to see the harms of segregation or to win wars.


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Theater in Ancient Greece Daily

Theater in Ancient Athens was tied into religion because they would do these certain plays and skits for different gods. They had a festival called the Dionysia. This festival was dedicated to the god Dionysus. These plays were either comedies, tragedies, or the satyr plays. These were the dramatic genres that they would perform for different festivals. Theater is related to politics in Ancient Athens because the plays would sometimes reflect on the decisions that they make as a country. The politicians would pick the plays based on their decisions around the time that they pick the play.

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2/17/10 Athens Notes

Athens is referred to as the mainland. The oldest poem written in the English language is the Iliad. There is a fight because Paris wants Helen of Troy to be his wife but she is already married. They fought for ten years. Achilles was killed in this battle. The Greeks slaughtered all the Trojans by hiding in a big wooden horse and jumping out when they were asleep. People thought Troy was a legend before a German architect found the city.

Athens a Democracy Daily

Athens was really a democracy because the people voted for what they wanted. They didn't vote for the politicians to represent them. They did however vote for the actions that those politicians would place on them. The people would decide if they wanted to go to war and to raise taxes or build a navy. Even though the people of Athens didn't vote for their government, they did however vote for just about everything else. This shows that the people of Athens were a democracy.

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Olympics Daily

The differences to the Olympic games that took place in Ancient Greece and the ones this weekend are what they were for and why they competed in them. In Ancient Greece the athletes competed for Zeus and would worship him by competing in these sorts. Another difference is that they competed naked sometimes and if they wore anything it would be loin clothes. One similarity is that they both had the best athletes from their times compete in these games. Another similarity is that women could compete if they were a virgin.


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Important things Article

Elliott Weinberg
Western Civilization
2/4/10
I think that the most important things in life are the necessities that we need to live that life. The things we need most in life are food, water, and shelter. Without these basic needs we cannot survive as a human on earth. Once we have the necessities, there are other categories of things that are also important. Those categories are wants, religion, and the laws or government that allows people to live together in a civilization. All of these are things are important to everyday life. If any of these things are missing, the people in the civilization, or even the civilization as a whole, would be hurt in some way.
The first category that I am going to be looking at is the category of necessities. These are the basic needs like food, water, and shelter. These are necessities because we literally need them to survive. We can only live a short time without food and only three days without water. If we go past this limit, we will die of thirst or die of hunger. If you don’t have a home or a roof over you there could be serious consequences. One of these consequences could be getting sick because you are not protected from the weather. In the winter the weather gets harsh and cold. If you don’t have a place to be warm you could get Pneumonia and die. When you go for long times without food, your body actually begins to eat itself. Since there are not any nutrients in the body anymore, your body gets the nutrients from the vital organs and tissue. When your body goes for a long period of time without water you can't survive because your body is made up mostly of water so if you don’t get that you cannot survive. The last necessity would be clothing. Everyone should have clothing so they can have some kind of dignity. Clothing is also important because it protects you from the weather when you are outside of your house and gives you a better standard of working and going through your everyday lives. Shoes are even better because if you are working in a rocky terrane you need something to protect your feet. This is why necessities are important to life.
Another category of important things in life are wants. Wants that you and your civilization have are things that are nice to have but you don’t really need them to survive. Wants are important because they keep the morale up. If you keep up the morale of your civilization then it will thrive. An example of a want would be like a certain type of clothing, so you could have the best fashion. Another example of a want would be jewelry. We can understand why these are important because if everyone wore the same clothes all the time there would be no personality. One last want would be a want for different technologies. Just like in modern times, if a new videogame or computer comes out we want it. The same goes for back in ancient times. When a new game or weapon came out, they probably wanted it as much as we want new technologies today. The Egyptians and Persians probably wanted to stay with the times as much as we do.
The next category of important things to life is religion. Religion is extremely important when you are talking about a civilization. Most civilizations base their life and work off of what religion or concepts that they believe in. Even today we base our lives off of Christianity by acting like a Christian and helping people out. Religion is very important because it defines the values of a group of people, including how to treat each other and what is good and bad. Also, as a Christian, we make time for God and go to church on Sundays to show God that we include him in our lives. The ancient Egyptians also based their lifestyle off of their religion. The Egyptians used to believe that there was this key to eternal life named Ka. If Ka granted you eternal life then you could go to the afterlife. If he didn’t grant you eternal life then you had to stay on earth for all of eternity. To know if you move onto the afterlife or stay on earth, Osiris would weigh your heart against a feather. If the weight of your heart balanced with the weight of the feather than you got to move onto the afterlife. If the weight of your heart was not in balance with the weight of the feather than you would not move onto the afterlife. The Egyptians even produced burial grounds that were way beyond any other monuments of their time. The Egyptians were famous for their construction of the Pyramids. These were actually used for the burial of the Pharaoh and his family. The whole process of getting the Pharaoh ready for burial was a spiritual process. The first step was to take out his brain. They did this by breaking off the nose and taking the brain out by a hook. The next step in the mummification was to take out all the vital organs except for the heart, and put them into special containers so the Egyptian gods could watch over them and protect them. The next step would be to put oils on the body and cleanse it. After the cleansing the last step would be to wrap the body in linen cloths to preserve the body even further. It is obvious that religion was a very important part of Egyptian life since they went through this difficult process to prepare for the afterlife.
The last important thing to a civilization would be having some order to the way the people should live in the civilization. In most countries, there is some form of government and laws that everyone has to live by, even if all of the people are not the same religion. In America, we have many freedoms in our lives. These freedoms are written into our laws and the form of government that we have. Because of government and laws, we all know how we have to behave to live together and have all of these freedoms. Freedoms are important to people because without them, people do not have the rights and the free will of living life how they want to live it. Freedoms and human rights are what made America what it is today. America is different from other countries because we have more of the freedom and human rights than many other countries in the world. It is because of these freedoms and human rights that we get so many immigrants each year.
The important things for a civilization to have are the necessities that are needed to survive, the wants to make people try to be better or have new things, and religion, government and laws to give people the values and order to live peacefully together. With these important things, a civilization can exist and grow better for a long time.

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Pyramid Comic

2/4/10 Egypt Notes

A Mesabi is a stepped pyramid. The old kingdom was the first dynastic era of ancient Egypt. They think the Sphinx is the protector of the Pharaoh. Napoleon was the first European to visit and invade Egypt. The middle kingdom runs from 2030 to 1640 B.C.
There is no more monumental Pyramid building after this era. They believed in Osiris and Iris. They were the Egyptian gods. Akhenaten introduces monotheism. King Tut didn't do much but he is the most famous Pharaoh that we know. Egypt was at war with the Newmedians in the South and a lot of other people. The Persians invade Egypt and conquer the dynasties. The Persian empire stretched from Turkey to Egypt. Greeks came down and started to colonize around Egypt. Dolmen are stacks of huge rocks that are usually used as burial grounds. Menhirs are standing stones. We don't really know what Stonehenge was built for.

War is a form of Technology Daily

I think that war is a form of technology. I think this because you can see technology in all aspects of war. When you look at the weapons a certain military force had you can see how developed they are by seeing if they had steel swords or bronze swords. You can also look at the armor they had on, was it steel, iron, or bronze. You can also look at the strategy that the different civilizations used. If they were smart and used more guerrilla warfare than you can tell that, that civilization had more training and better soldiers. All of these have to do with technology and help people win wars. This is why I think that war can be a technology.

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2/3/10 Notes on Egypt

The Nile river is the longest river. We don't know if Narmer was a real person or a imaginary person. In the pallet he has the crown of upper and lower Egypt. He took his title by force. The old kingdom wad the first dynasty of Egypt. Pharaohs also wear headdresses and never wearing a top, but always wearing a shirt. In Egyptian sculpture you never find space between the legs. Hieroglyphics are usually carved in stone.They are not pictures that stand for something. Each hieroglyph represents a sound in the Egyptian language. Pyramids are only used to bury the Pharaoh and his family in. People thought the Pyramids were built by slaves. On an expedition people found coins that would've been traded for the labor of building the pyramids. Mortuaries were built to contain dead people. We know that Egypt had a lot of slaves like Jews, Mesopotamians, and slaves from central Africa. Ka was the key to their religion. Your Ka was released when they die and eventually it was called up to judgment. The heart is weighed with a feather and if they equal the same amount than they get to go into the afterlife.

Oldest Artifact Daily

The oldest artifact that matters to me are the aqueducts. Aqueducts were used for transporting water from place to place. It was the first irrigation system of the time. India was discovered to have some of the first aqueducts ever invented.Other than irrigating crops the aqueducts were used for transporting large amounts of water to the cities that needed it. This invention is important to me because humans can't survive without water, so we would've needed to invent the aqueduct if they didn't sooner or later.

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The Importance of Water Daily

Water was extremely important in the ancient world. Water was used for many things like to drink, to transport goods, and to create a plumbing system. To transport goods they would ship them over to a different country so they could get what they need. They could use it to create plumbing systems so that they could safely remove the waste from their country so that it wouldn't contaminate their water that they used for drinking.

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